JeffPassan Jeff Passan
For example: Worst team in baseball gets $5M to spend internationally. If team doesn't want to spend it all, it can trade $ to another team.
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JeffPassan Jeff Passan
Teams can trade for only 50% more than their international spending cap. So if a team has a $2.5M cap, most it can trade for is $1.25M.
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JeffPassan Jeff Passan
Every team will have $2.9M to spend in international bonus money this season. Money is not tradeable this year.
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JeffPassan Jeff Passan
Sources: Cubans under 23 years old and with less than three years in pro ball will be considered "amateurs" and count against int'l bonus $.
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JeffPassan Jeff Passan
In other words, players like Yoenis Cespedes are safe. Had Aroldis Chapman defected now, however, he would have received way less than $30M.
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DKnobler DKnobler
International signing limits will not affect the posting system for players from Japan
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Draft:

JeffPassan Jeff Passan
Draft tax is harsh: Teams that go more than 5% over slot get a 75% tax. From 5-10% over, a 75% tax and loss of 1st-round pick the next year.
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JeffPassan Jeff Passan
There will be six draft picks immediately after the first round given out via lottery to teams with 10 lowest revenues, 10 smallest markets.
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JeffPassan Jeff Passan
From an MLB/MLBPA release: "A club’s odds of winning the lottery will be based on its prior season’s winning percentage."
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Still need time to digest. As a White Sox fan, the changes are rather beneficial. Teams like the Pirates and Royals are severely hurt. Supposedly the majority of the GMs hate the changes. The owners don't though.

Changes so far are a doozy. Pretty ****ty overall for small market teams. Especially those that realize the need to invest in the draft and to build from within.

This looks great for small market teams, top prospects won't be able to play the signability card and get skipped over for lesser players who will take less, only to wind up with a bigger spender who will pay their demands.

This looks great for small market teams, top prospects won't be able to flaunt their signability and get skipped over for lesser players who will take less.

The majority of the small market teams have been the ones selecting those players that would be skipped. Pirates, Jays, Nationals, Royals have all been picking those hard signs and throwing money at them. That's why they've been at the top of bonus spending for a few years now. This merely helps teams that are cheap and unwilling to go over slot.

Conversely, I'm pleased that this is going to hurt teams like the Red Sox. Should also hurt the Cubs who just recently started unloading bags of money in the draft. Theo's Red Sox model which he was bringing to the Cubs is pretty ****ed.

Kevin_Goldstein Kevin Goldstein
You know how the Royals have a great system? They did that through spending big money on the draft. Strategy now basically illegal.
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Kevin_Goldstein Kevin Goldstein
You know how the Rangers have a remarkable wealth of high-ceiling talent due to incredible international work? Strategy now illegal.
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What I find fascinating is how the agents seem to have been in the dark, and not a part of this negotiation.
My understanding is Scott Boras has been on radio, ripping the new CBA.
It sounds like he did not know what was coming, or if he did he did he could not influence it.
I am pro union, but if Boras is losing some of his influence in baseball, then this is a good thing.